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The pandemic and migrant labor

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Julia Henrichmann
June 1, 2021

The UN estimates there were 164 million migrant workers in the world in 2017. But Covid-19 related travel restrictions and curfews have put a halt to the usual waves of labor migration. Some workers returned to their family homes after losing their jobs.

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